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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section</H1>
    <B>Kamil Rytarowski</B> 
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    <I>Tue Nov  8 17:46:48 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 08.11.2011 13:59, Jos&#233; Jorge wrote:
&gt;<i> Le mardi 8 novembre 2011 09:05:25, Kamil Rytarowski a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Same BIG problems here. DVD default installation is de facto BROKEN.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Please don't use radeon fb driver.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> There were bugs on it on our bugzilla.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Which ones? On my hardware, missing the firmware does NOT disable free radeon
</I>&gt;<i> driver : it only disables acceleration. I use this as a feature daily on a
</I>&gt;<i> laptop which video memory is partly corrupted, so I am really sure that at
</I>&gt;<i> least on pre 2xxx hardware it works (x300/x600/x700/x1300).
</I><A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884</A>

I can confirm that with non-free packages the boot works, without it 
Mageia isn't bootable (with the radeon framebuffer) at all.
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